What is going on in New York?
In what can best be described as political correctness on steroids, the New York City Board of Ed has established a school that focuses on teaching "Arabic language and culture."…
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
What is going on in New York?
In what can best be described as political correctness on steroids, the New York City Board of Ed has established a school that focuses on teaching "Arabic language and culture."…
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126 - Nancy
Now that British scientists have the go-ahead for engaging in human/animal DNA cloning etc. I suppose the "Manimals" of Dr. Moreau are only a matter of time...? God knows what THAT is going to produce.
127 - Clavos
I think you may have misunderstood me, Nancy.
Think about what I said; it had to do with "humanity."
I won't post it again, because Big Brother is watching...
128 - Christopher Rose
Nancy and others:- In case you're wondering, i have deleted all of moonraven's comments bar one and all the comments responding to her remarks. Fruits of the poisoned tree and all that.
I was out walking the dogs when she kicked off else I would have got to them faster.
As to the latest new from England, this is not for the production of manimals but strictly for medical purposes. As to manimals, all life is good (well, except for wasps and mosquitos) so I don't really have any major problems with that prospect.
The Welsh have been trying to do that for years anyway! LOL
129 - Nancy
What ARE they trying to do it for (crossing human & animal DNA)? I mean, have any specific medical goals been mentioned? I don't like it because in my experience, there's always some nutcase that takes it & runs with it to the point of abuse. There is nothing you can count on from people except that at least one in every crowd will not exercise restraint.
130 - Nancy
Chris, I will hand it to you, editing this bunch must sometimes be like herding cats. I try not to fall to some others' levels, but it's hard when the insults are so gratuitous & nasty. I'll keep it civil if others will....
131 - Catey
Ruvy
You explained that very well. Ok, Chris don't hate me and don't want to kill me :/ I'm not sure what European free speech is though.
132 - Christopher Rose
Nancy, here's a couple of brief extracts from the BBC's report on the story:-
"Scientists want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs in a bid to extract stem cells. The embryos would then be destroyed within 14 days.
The cells form the basic building blocks of the body and have the potential to become any tissue, making them essential for research.
At the moment, scientists have to rely on human eggs left over from fertility treatment, but they are in short supply and are not always good quality...
Lyle Armstrong, of Newcastle University, added: "This is excellent news. It is a positive outcome not just for our work but for the progress of British science in general and we hope that this will lead to new technologies to benefit everyone."
And he also said: "It does seem a little abhorrent at first analysis, but you have to understand we are using very, very little information from the cow in order to do this reprogramming idea.
"It's not our intention to create any bizarre cow-human hybrid, we want to use those cells to understand how to make human stem cells better."
133 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
"Ruvy, I give you sugar and you give me - nothing? C'mon man, let's talk..."
OK Chris, let's talk. Bear in mind here that if I mention the Bible or things in it, it is not at all to impress you with the wisdom of a "dusty old tome" or to try to bother you with the existence of G-d.
You'll see what I mean when I get there.
Let's stipulate that humanity is a young species compared to some of the other species that have hung about the earth. Everything you bring up about evolving as a species involves physical change. None of it appears to involve spiritual change.
What is the significance of pointing this all out?
There is a story in the Book of Genesis where Abraham travels to Gerar, a Philistine city in the Negev. The king Avimelekh, noticing Avraham's wife, Sarah, expresses interest in her. Avraham, sliding out of a dangerous situation, states that Sarah is his sister. He's not really lying. Sarah is his half sister - they are children of the same father, but of different mothers. That's how Sumerian royalty arranged marriages. But he doesn't tell Avimelekh that. So, Avimelekh has Sarah taken to his palace, where he intends to screw her. But G-d comes to Avimelekh in a dream and warns him that if he screws Sarah, he and his people will die. Terrified, he returns Sarah to Avraham, etc. etc. What runs threough tis entire story are greed, lust and deceipt.
Moshe Dayan used to screw anything in skirts in Israel. Like King Avimelekh, 3,500 years earlier, he took women when he pleased because he was a powerful man, a guy with a general's falafel on his epaulets. Lots of Israeli generals are like that, and lots of powerful men here are like that. the women aren't impressed by the prick screwing them, or even with the schlong on the prick screwing them but with the power the prick represents.
And every now and again one of them pisses off the women he has screwed - like former president Moshe Katzav. What ran through his story was greed, lust and deceipt, just like the story of Avraham and Avimelekh (the Torah is silent on how Sarah felt about all the attention she garnered).
How have either men or women evolved in 3,500 years?
They live longer to practice greed, lust and deceit? They can do it in better health?
Think about that...
134 - Dr Dreadful
Please note the comment you made about double posting didn't, so it can't be anything to do with your IP address.
I saw that. I've noticed that the longer my comment is (or the longer I take to write it), the more duplicates of it there are.
My comment this morning on the 9/11 thread even posted three times in two different versions. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???
135 - moonraven
It happens constantly, doc.
The only difference is that I am ALWAYS accused of doing it deliberately, while the rest of you are pure as the fucking driven snow.
136 - Catey
Ruvy, I am anxiously awaiting your messiah article.
137 - moonraven
Article?
I thought it was traditional to anxiously await the MESSIAH....
138 - Cindy D
I am sorry I am so "late to the party" regrading this topic as I would love to respond on two issues. If you should wander by OA, I would like to know whose concerns these are:
"Add to that the concerns regarding Muslim assimilation into the American culture, their tendency to seclude themselves from the rest of Americana, and the concerns that such self-segregation is at the heart of local terrorist recruitment..."
Where is your evidence that American Muslims have a tendency to seclude themselves?
Your own citation says this:
"...the U.S. Muslim population is largely young and male, it is also comparatively wealthy, well-educated and integrated into the general population. There are few signs of radicalization among U.S. first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants."